The Woodland Lady Bobcats didn’t lose a single game as they rolled to the championship of the Southern Union volleyball tournament on Saturday.They opened with a 25-16, 25-10 win over RCHS, then romped over Cleburne County 25-9 and 25-20In the championship the Lady Bobcats defeated Handley 25-18 and 25-21.Woodland eighth-grader Courtney Strain was named the…
WADLEY – After a seemingly endless stream of letters, phone calls, and official visits, Wadley’s Terrell Zachery has made his choice. Zachery, easily the hottest football prospect in the county this year (maybe ever), has become the 13th player to commit to the 2006 recruiting class of the Auburn Tigers. Zachery committed to the Tigers…
Imagine an old school bus, heading down a dusty rural route carrying a full load of children. Many of the children are tired; they’ve woken up early to get to school. Yet it’s not the morning trip to the schoolhouse or the afternoon trip home, but in the middle of the day. The bus is…
Since Monday of this week, Randolph Medical Associates has been operating in its new building near the intersection of Old LaFayette Highway and U.S. Highway 431. For now, that means the family practice of Dr. Russell Peterson and a staff of seven. In two weeks Dr. Ivan Lewis Slavich will join him. Both are moving…
Arrests Derek Edward Austin, 21, of 95 Austin Dr. was arrested on Oct. 3 and charged with failure to appear for DUI and VPL. Patricia Ann Sims, also known as Patricia Clark, 34, of Valley was arrested on Sept. 30 and charged with writing a bad check. Sha Nicole Cummings, 23, of 1695 County Rd.…
WOODLAND – A look at the stat sheet doesn’t tell you the whole story of RCHS’s 34-6 win over Woodland. If you run down the numbers – turnovers, penalties, first downs, total yards, – you would have deduced that a close game was the source of such numbers. But that would belie the Tigers’ big-play…
WADLEY – Whether it’s an undefeated top-10 opponent or a winless bottom feeder, Terrance Wilkes knows no difference. The Wadley junior rushed for 234 yards and three touchdowns on 27 carries to lead the top-ranked Bulldogs (6-0, 4-0 in 1A, Region 5) to a 34-14 win over tenth-ranked Winterboro and continue unabated on his march…
The annual Renew Our Rivers Lake Wedowee Cleanup was held last week, with more than 200 miles of Lake Wedowee shoreline cleaned and approximately 85 to 90 percent of the trash that was in the lake now in a landfill. In addition to all of the bottles, cans, Styrofoam and plastic, nearly 100 tires also…
Adopt-A-Mile signs are everywhere, yet so is roadside litter. Are those who have pledged to keep a mile of roadway clean not doing their jobs or are thoughtless litterers doing their thing faster than those who clean up behind them can keep up? What makes some people throw their trash anywhere they please remains a…
A new home improvement store is coming to Roanoke this winter. Russell Do-It Center will locate in the former Davis Building Supply on U.S. 431 between the 3-D Shopping Center and Super Wal-Mart. According to David Jolly, director of merchandising, Russell Do-It Center will offer a full line of hardware, lumber, building materials, plumbing and…
Arrests John Todd Sanders, 36, of 12922 County Rd. 65, Roanoke, was arrested on Oct. 3 and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and DUI. Brandon Lee Mason, 18, of Carrollton, Ga., was arrested on Oct. 3 and charged with third-degree burglary and third-degree theft. Cedric Pernall “Ced” Glenn, 28, of 1196 County Rd. 213,…
All four county teams can punch their tickets for the postseaon after Friday this coming Friday night. All they have to do is win, a task that should be a cakewalk for most of them. Here’s how it should play out. Childersburg (2-4) at Handley (5-1) If the Handley offense continues to stay in its…
Handley High School principal Jimmy Holley gave a presentation to Roanoke Board of Education highlighting new things going on at HHS during the board’s monthly meeting on Tuesday of last week. One of these is a newsletter to be mailed to parents at the mid-term of each trimester. Another is the Freshman Academy, a transitional…
(WEDOWEE) Services for Thomas O. Gabriel Sr., 87, of Wedowee will be Monday, Oct. 3, 2005 at 2 p.m. at Bethel West Baptist Church, with the Rev. David Holcombe and the Rev. Phillip Waits officiating. Mr. Gabriel will lie in state at the church for one hour before the service. Burial will follow in the…
(LANETT) Mr. Eulice L. Gordon, 80, of Lanett died Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005, at LaFayette Extended Care in LaFayette. Funeral services will be Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 2 p.m. at Happy Valley Baptist Church in Lanett with the Revs. Rusty Letson and Mark McGee officiating. Burial will follow at Resthaven Memorial Gardens. Mr. Gordon is…
(VALLEY) Sarah Jim McGraw Andrews, 87, of Valley died Sunday, Oct. 2, 2005, at LaGrange Hospice in LaGrange. Funeral services will be Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 4 p.m. at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home Chapel in Valley with the Rev. Danny Spear of the First Christian Church (Fairfax) of Valley presiding and with music by her…
(WEDOWEE) John R. Knight, 91, of County Road 905, Wedowee died Friday, Sept. 30, 2005, at Roanoke Health Care Center. Services will be Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 1 p.m. at Pine Flat Primitive Baptist Church, Wedowee, with Elder Thomas Knight, Elder James Rowe and Brother Henry Nelson officiating. Burial will be in Stephen’s Mission United…
(VALLEY) Flo McEachern Bence, 93, of Valley died Sunday, Oct. 2, 2005, at LaFayette Extended Care in LaFayette. Funeral services will be Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 2 p.m. at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home Chapel in Valley with the Rev. Kenneth Holt officiating. Burial will follow at Langdale Cemetery. Mrs. Bence is survived by her husband,…
(HEFLIN) Services for Opal Higgins, 68, of Heflin will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, 2005, at Dryden Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Chris Jackson officiating. Burial will follow at Union Hill Cemetery in Randolph County. Ms. Higgins died Tuesday, Sept. 27, at Cleburne County Nursing Home. Survivors include her daughter, Charlotte Shockley…
(SELMA) Services for Robert Gary Sims, 58, of Selma will be Monday, Oct. 3, 2005, at 1 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, Roanoke, with the Rev. John Cole officiating. Burial will follow at the Sims Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 10 to 2 p.m. on Monday. Mr. Sims died…